Philippe Capet

Philippe Capet

Male Abt 1052 - 1108  (56 years)


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  • Name Philippe Capet 
    Birth Abt 23 May 1052  Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    FSID G1QM-LRG 
    Death 29 Jul 1108  Île-De-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I7370  footsteps | Ancestors, Beaufort, Robert Capet II
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2025 

    Father King Of The Franks Henri Capet,   b. 4 May 1008, Champagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1060, Vitry-En-Brie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Grand Duchess Of Kiev Anna Yaroslavna,   b. Abt 1030, Kiev, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1075, La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, Vermandois, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 29 Jan 1050  Reims, Marne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4496  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bertha Of Holland,   b. 1056, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1108, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Marriage 1072  [1
    Children 
    +1. Louis Capet, VI,   b. Abt 1081, Paris, Île-De-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Aug 1137, Auvergne, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4497  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2025 

  • Notes 


    • Philip I (23 May 1052 - 29 July 1108), called the enormous or the Fat, w a s K i n g o f France from 1060 to his death. His reign, like that of most o f t h e e a r ly Direct Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. Th e m o n a r chy began a modest recovery from the low it reached in the reign o f h i s f a t her and he added to the royal demesne The Vexin and Bourges. P hi l i p w a s the son of Henry I and Anne of Kiev . His name was of Greek o r i g i n , being derived from Philippos, meaning "lover of horses". It was r a t h e r e xotic for Western Europe at the time and was bestowed upon him b y h i s E a s tern European mother. Although he was crowned king at the age o f s e v e n , until age fourteen (1066) his mother acted as regent, the firs t q u e e n o f France ever to do so. Her co-regent was Baldwin V of Flander s. P h i l i p first married Bertha, daughter of Floris I, Count of Holland, i n 1 0 7 2 . A lthough the marriage produced the necessary heir, Philip fell i n l o v e w i th Bertrade de Montfort, the wife of Count Fulk IV of Anjou. H e r e p u d iated Bertha (claiming she was too fat) and married Bertrade on 1 5 M a y 1 0 9 2. In 1094, he was excommunicated by Hugh, Archbishop of Lyon, f o r t h e f i rst time; after a long silence, Pope Urban II repeated the exc o m m u n ication at the Council of Clermont in November 1095. Several times t h e b a n w a s lifted as Philip promised to part with Bertrade, but he alwa y s r e t u rned to her, and after 1104, the ban was not repeated. In France , t h e k i n g was opposed by Bishop Ivo of Chartres, a famous jurist. Phil ip a p p o i nted Alberic first Constable of France in 1060. A great part of h i s r e i g n, like his father's, was spent putting down revolts by his powe r - h u n gry vassals. In 1077, he made peace with William the Conqueror, wh o g a v e u p a ttempting the conquest of Brittany. In 1082, Philip I expand ed h i s d e m esne with the annexation of the Vexin. Then in 1100, he took c on t r o l o f Bourges.

  • Sources 
    1. [S402] UK Royals - Genmatch/Mudcreek publications.
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